Acetylene-Diesel Dual Fuel Engine - A Study on Performance Optimization

Concern about long-term supplies of conventional hydrocarbon-based fuel and the growing awareness of environmental consequences of increasing exhaust emission products from automobile engines and other energy conversion devices has motivated the search for suitable environmental friendly alternative fuel. One approach in this direction is to utilize gaseous fuel in diesel engines in dual fuel mode. In the present work, acetylene has been chosen as an alternative fuel. It has excellent combustion properties but its utilization in the internal combustion engine is hindered due to pre-ignition and backfire problem.

About the author

Lakshmanan, Prof., Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, KPR Institute of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, India.Nagarajan, Prof., Department of Mechanical Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, India.

Product details

• Authors: Nagarajan Govindan, Lakshmana Thangavelu, Lakshmanan Thangavelu
• Assisted by: Avinas Alagumalai (Editor), Avinash Alagumalai (Editor)
• Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2017
• EAN: 9783330025059
• ISBN: 978-3-33-002505-9
• No. of pages: 184
• Subject: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel